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The Bees
by Laline Paull
Interesting premise, but very derivative in its execution. Flora is just another sanitation bee, and there will be no exceptions made! But somehow everyone treats her like she’s different. She gets to be all these other kinds of bees. She is the unique special snowflake, just this time in bee form.
Another issue with this premise is the lack of emotion. While I chose this book because of the inhuman narrator, I found that a lot of the language falls flat. I felt no emotion, other that irritaiton, while reading this book..
This book could have been a compelling and fast-paced short story. In novel format, it drags, and I was bored for the majority of it. The only reason I finished it was because I’m nearing the end of the 2017 PopSugar book challenge, and I had to find a book from a nonhuman narrator.
Another issue with this premise is the lack of emotion. While I chose this book because of the inhuman narrator, I found that a lot of the language falls flat. I felt no emotion, other that irritaiton, while reading this book.
Spoiler
There was one point, early in the book, where Flora was expected to eat a baby, and I was horrified by this. Sadly, that’s the only point where I felt any emotion that was expected of me.This book could have been a compelling and fast-paced short story. In novel format, it drags, and I was bored for the majority of it. The only reason I finished it was because I’m nearing the end of the 2017 PopSugar book challenge, and I had to find a book from a nonhuman narrator.